Kareena is disgusted with the pregnancy rumours
In Delhi to promote her film, " Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu", she got candid about how disgusted she is with the new system of 'plugging fainting stories' in Bollywood.
You didn't seem too comfortable coming out with so many fans around. Don't you think it's important for films to be promoted extensively?
I think a nice press conference where you talk a little bit about the film works. I think that's important. I don't think what it's really come down to is important. I think the audience is very sharp. Anyone will see the promo and get a feel of the movie, and decide if they want to watch it or not.
How about "Agent Vinod" then? Would you be changing a bit for that one considering it's Saif's home production?
I think Saif's promoting the film a little more than I will. It's the title role. I'm anyway not keen on giving too many interviews. I generally don't... like I am not very into the PR strategy. That's not the way I look at my career. I don't indulge in false stories or things like that. People know me through my films and through my public appearances, and things that make my fans know the kind of girl I am, but it's not really important that I'm in the press.
But isn't out of sight dangerous in Bollywood?
But I'm clearly not out of sight or out of mind, am I? And interviews cannot make someone a star. Nor can promotions of any sort. I think it's your box office collections and your brand endorsements. Movies and being a star are just a part of my world. It's not my world. I've always been a girl who has separated my movies and my personal life. I've never spent my time in a way that... oh, it's 12 o clock at night and I'm still giving interviews, talking to the press, or putting out stories that I'm doing this or that, or that I've fainted. I clearly do have a life of my own and I hope my fans know that.
Not talking as much as others could also imply that you are snooty, right?
But I talk as much as any other actor, or actually as much as is required for a film. But, if I don't have any film releasing, what are they going to ask?
About your wedding!
Well, in that case, no one's going to get an answer. So, it'll be boring for the reader, for the interviewer and for me. Everybody is just making a fool of themselves. They'll not get an answer from either me or Saif. The kind of stories that are coming out are bizarre. I've just stopped reading. I think the readers have become sharp. There are no statements from either side, so why should anyone fill up their pages with false stories.
But you can't avoid it too. Your relationship with Saif has always been in the limelight and will always be...
It's sad. India's always trying to ape the west and they're trying to be like the paparazzi, like in LA. So, I just put on my best smile and simply walk on. Saif's just like 'Smile your way through... just put your head down and smile', and let them do their work. There are times I'd be really tired and looking disheveled, but now I'm like, it doesn't matter.
The disheveled bit has clearly not worked for you in the past couple of days with it being suggested that you're hiding a baby bump...
It's bizarre! Can you believe it? That's like... I don't understand. But I am happy looking disheveled. Clearly they don't know what Hollywood stars look like. I mean like please, it's so sad what things here have come to. A loose T-shirt means that I'm concealing a baby bump, it's disgusting.
Learnt that early in life...
I am lucky I come from a film family, and what's most important is to know that it's all a part of your life, it's not my life. I'm happy I know this. There's so much more permanence - love, family, my niece and nephew. I love travelling, I love food, I love going to Europe, I love watching operas, or going to the theatres, I'd love to go to the Louvre, but we never manage to make it because the queue is always so long and I keep telling Saif that we have to come back here. I love doing all these things and I can never do it all in India. I know India's where I come back for work, this is where work is.
How do you take out time for the other things in your life when you yourself say you're working on five films a year?
I work for 19 hours a day, I do five films a year and 15 endorsements, so I don't waste time doing anything else. I'm just back from a 20-day holiday and I'm getting back to work immediately. Also, I spend time outside in my own world and that's why I don't have many friends in the industry except Karan (Johar) and Manish (Malhotra). I don't go to many parties. I don't do the normal Bollywood route at all.
Source: Times of India
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